Yakk

The invasion of Canada by conventional forces would be an act of insanity.

For any "rich" nation, invading Canada would be a rather silly proposition. The costs would be large, and the benefits small. By "rich", I mean G8.

For any poor nation, even with our relatively small military, we'd kick their ass. We "only" spend 1.1 of our GDP on the military, but that spending is more than the GDP of many nations on earth.

Lets have some fun. North Korea
For NK:
For Canada:
NK spends 1/3 of its GDP on the military. Canada spends 1.1%. If hostilities started, who do you think would be able to ramp up their production faster?

About the only nations we are in danger from are nations like China: not a free country, yet with a reasonable sized economy. Other than China, the nation Canada is most in danger of invasion from is USA. If the USA chose to invade us, conventional weapons won't help.

I wouldn't mind a touch more spent on the military myself, but really, we aren't planning on invading anyone, and invading us is stupidity itself. Our military would be used for world stability and peacekeeping, realistically, and the occasional policing action.

The reason I'd be for a slight increase is I've always been overly paranoid. =) And, the military I suspect is a decent form of foriegn aid, with benefits.

So, who wants to decriminalize marijuana period?

Do you mean vote?

The Liberals aren't perfect, but remember it was Liberal appointees who found the accounting problems and corruption. I do understand the need for a change of house: however, the conservatives are not a reasonable party to "change houses" to. Neither are the federally inexperienced NDP.

I want a minority government. I want representation-by-population voting system changes to be on the Canadian political table.

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